style, the last two being granted to him by the king. In 1533, Henry VIII paid a state visit to Weston at his newly built mansion at Sutton Place. Thomas Cromwell was a guest there later. In 1539, Weston was appointed to meet Anne of Cleves on her arrival in England, when he must have been considerably over seventy years of age. In 1542, he surrendered his post of sub-treasurer of England "ob senectutem debilitatam et continuam infirmitatem" (20 January) and died on 7 August. He was buried in the Weston Chapel, built by him in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. He was succeeded in his estates by his six year-old grandson Henry Weston, the son of his executed son Francis Weston. Marriage and children He married Anne Sandys, a daughter of Oliver Sandys of Shere, and one of the Gentlewomen of Queen Catherine of Aragon, by whom he had a son and two daughters as follows: Sir Francis Weston (d.1536), only son and heir apparent, who in 1530 married Anne Pickering, a daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington in Cumberland, by whom he had a son Henry Weston (born 1535). Francis was arrested as one of the alleged lovers of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. Although his father is said to have offered all the family had in order to gain a pardon for his son, Sir Francis was executed in 1536. Margaret Weston; Katherine Weston. Notes References Attribution Endnotes: Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Brewer and Gardiner, passim; 'Harrison's Annals of an Old Manor House pp. 31–65 Manning and Bray's History of Surrey, i. 133, 134. External links Royal Berkshire History: Sir Richard Weston (1465-1541) 1465 births 1541 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for Berkshire Knights of the Bath Guernsey politicians English MPs 1529–1536 People from Boston, Lincolnshire People from Ufton Nervet People from Windsor, Berkshire Treasurers of Calais People from Surrey 15th-century English people